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Indian-origin leader sues Malaysian govt

KUALA LUMPUR: An ethnic Indian protest leader filed a $28 million defamation suit against Malaysia's government on Friday for claiming his group had possible terrorist links.

Lawyers for P Uthayakumar, a leader of the Hindu Right Action Force (or Hindraf), filed the suit in the Kuala Lumpur high court seeking damages totalling at least 100 million ringgit ($28 million) from the government, the national police chief and the attorney general.

Uthayakumar was suing the government because it "attempted to blacken hisreputation globally" with the claims of terror links, said N Surendran, a lawyer involved in the case.

Meanwhile, a Malaysian court allowed a joint trial for 54 ethnic Indians who took part in what it called an illegal assembly organised by Hindraf last year. Thirty seven Indians turned up in court on Thursday for trial for partici - pating in the "unlawful" assembly.

9 January,2008